Hi,
I am using GNOME-2.14.3+ desktop, all compiled from sources on a linux
system, all compiled from sources with gcc-CVS-200608XX, using
-march=athlon-xp on Athlon 2600+ (1917 MHz) with 256 MB RAM.
I have experienced the GNOME memory usage problem before
glibc-CVS-20060813. After upgrading glibc to that version,
total memory usage have dropped below 82 MB, swap usage is 0 to ~200 KB.
I am looking at xosview screen.
I am running LyX (using pdflatex), Firefox, Inkscape, evince, java.
I do not run GNOME clock applet, which runs full evolution-data-server.
The system is very responsive,
- Moshe Gorohovsky
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:47:03PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
>> My opinion: Some serious debate needs to be occured, whether in
>> slashdor or the mailing lists, some sort of "shake up" in the
>> GNOME/KDE development community, to remind them that this situation
>> cannot be continue, and some diet is required.
>
> OpenOffice and Firefox are not developed by either gnome or KDE.
> Actually it seems that KDE apps are reasonably efficient. Gnome uses
> Gecko as an HTML rendering engine and thus is not entirely off the hook
> regarding FireFox.
>
>> I heard my advocates who recommend people to switch to Linux and use
>> KDE or GNOME with 256MB RAM. To them I can say HA HA! go ahead, fire
>> the latest GNOME and open 2-3 apps and give the machine a minute or
>> so, it will be almost unresponsive. It's better in KDE but not by
>> much. If someone wants something speedy, they should look at using
>> FVWM, flux box or any other "lite" window manager and use some
>> independent applications. I used FVWM with Kopete and KMAIL and
>> Konqueror, and the results were pretty good on a 192MB machine. I
>> tried to switch to GNOME (yes, stupid decision) and I had to reset the
>> machine in order to get my control back.
>
> If you use Konqueror and KMail there isn't much to gain from using fvwm
> as the WM (memory-wise).
>
> I tried using KDE recenly in a system with 128MB. Basically usable.
> Sadly kword is not usable enough and thus OOo has to be used, which is a
> loading and swapping pain.
>
--
Moshe Gorohovsky
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